4 Broad Functionality of SAP Financial Supply Chain Management
Alok Kumar
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SAP Financials is broadly organized in 4 broad functionality areas to support all financial management processes as well as integration with other business processes:
- Financial and Management Accounting
- Financial Supply Chain Management
- Treasury and Risk Management
- Corporate Governance
Going before ECC 5.0 most of the helpfulness supporting business structures related to cases, discussion, and credit management was dealt with outside SAP application using legacy systems or dealt with physically. Blend in with the Account receivable and the cash management was a more prominent measure of manual activity in a huge bit of cases.
With ECC 5.0 SAP displayed SAP Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM). A key objective is to bring business shapes on the receivables and collection side inside the SAP course of action as such giving progressively worth. It helps in tying all the rest of the subtleties around receivables, collections and cash management inside the affiliation as needs be inciting better compromise and last step interface with the customers.
In like manner, with other SAP things, this has also created over some stretch of time. From the outset, Cash and Treasury Management were similarly part of FSCM on account of close compromise needs anyway, today they are a bit of Treasury functionality. Notwithstanding the way that a bit of the functionality was available in past variations benefits were confined. An enormous bit of the other valuable districts is settled and create from a functionality perspective while FSCM is another functionality with very confined data execution experience open in the market.
Key functionalities/applications inside FSCM are:
1.Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment – This application gives predominant and even more continuous interfacing with the customers and vendors with the extra favorable position of self-organization to see the records similarly as make electronic portions. It fundamentally considers presenting the sales and record statements to the customer and vendor over the web. The key bit of leeway is a decline in overheads and procedure terms identified with this system for both – affiliations similarly as its customers and vendors.
2. Collections Management – This application gives the value to manage the collections even more profitably and satisfactorily. This resembles the collection management functionality adequately present in the SAP FI-AR portion with included features like sending payment reminders, planning collection strategies and regulating agreement related to payment from the customer.
3. Credit Management – Provides for value to regulate credit methodologies and threats identified with the receivables halfway – on any occasion, for circumstances where the business is supported by various events over the globe. Along these lines helps in realizing uniform credit policies and rules over the globe similarly as have one view for a customer who is overseeing in various countries. It moreover gets the handiness of administering complex customer credit account chains of significance and rules identified with it.
4. Dispute Management – Encouraged and automate a huge amount of manual activities drew in dealing with tackling disputes to payment related to receivables in electronic form. This moreover prompts better coordination and stream of information over different collaborators required to sort out the disputes.
A segment of the key benefits SAP FSCM gets are:
Last step mix with customers and vendors with immaterial establishment necessities from customer or dealer side along these lines provoking the higher choice rate.
The decline in manual activities, correspondence, and coordination tries as such inciting a diminishing in the general cost of supervising and doing the activities in the receivables related technique regions.
Utilization of partners over different functionalities gives more prominent versatility similarly to streamline the m data upkeep over the scene(landscape).
The information opens about continuously to all the almost certain arrangements with the working capital and receivables likewise decreasing the cost related to it.
Stock levels high and CCCs short. Further, most gainful firms are those that pay their suppliers right away. The WCM models reliant on the data of this assessment may add to consider strategies and choices regarding the perfect organization structures of supply chains.